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Ea tempestate Cassius ceteros praeminebat peritia
legum: nam militares artes per otium ignotae, industriosque
aut ignavos pax in aequo tenet. ac tamen quantum sine
bello dabatur, revocare priscum morem, exercitare legiones,
cura provisu perinde agere ac si hostis ingrueret: ita
dignum maioribus suis et familia Cassia per illas quoque
gentis celebrata. igitur excitis quorum de sententia petitus
rex, positisque castris apud Zeugma, unde maxime pervius
amnis, postquam inlustres Parthi rexque Arabum Acbarus
advenerat, monet Meherdaten barbarorum impetus acris
cunctatione languescere aut in perfidiam mutari: ita urgeret
coepta. quod spretum fraude Acbari, qui iuvenem ignarum
et summam fortunam in luxu ratum multos per dies attinuit
apud oppidum Edessam. et vocante Carene promptasque
res ostentante, si citi advenissent, non comminus Mesopotamiam, sed flexu Armeniam petivit, id temporis importunam,
quia hiems occipiebat.
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